In his 1978 classic, A Seneca Journal, Jerome Rothenberg continued the journey of his earlier Poland/1931, but under vastly altered circumstances. Those circumstances, no less real for their repositioning in time and space, involved a profound response to two years in Salamanca, a railroad town on the Allegany Seneca Reservation in western New York State. Going there as a poet in an ongoing search for the human and particular, Rothenberg in A Seneca Journal remains always aware -of who I am, while being drawn toward and ...
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In his 1978 classic, A Seneca Journal, Jerome Rothenberg continued the journey of his earlier Poland/1931, but under vastly altered circumstances. Those circumstances, no less real for their repositioning in time and space, involved a profound response to two years in Salamanca, a railroad town on the Allegany Seneca Reservation in western New York State. Going there as a poet in an ongoing search for the human and particular, Rothenberg in A Seneca Journal remains always aware -of who I am, while being drawn toward and affected by a place as never before.- The original four sections of this remarkable assemblage of mixed poetry and prose set geography, history, and myth (-my own and theirs-) against a contemporary landscape of bridges and cars and the all-pervasive deforming power of a dam -not built by beaver / master builder- but by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. To the original edition of A Seneca Journal this Nine Point reissue now adds a final section by Rothenberg and Seneca singer Richard Johnny John of translations from the Senecas' -Society of the Mystic Animals, - a riveting example of what Rothenberg later came to call -total translation.-
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Add this copy of A Seneca Journal to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by New Directions Publishing Corp..
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 8vo, 157 pp., First printing of the revised edition with a new section by Rothenberg and Seneca singer Richard Johnny John of translations from the Senecas' " Society of the Mystic Animals."
